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National taxpayer group to endorse Tedisco as part of ad campaign
March 4, 2009 | The Post-Star
By Maury Thompson
Lew Uhler, chairman of the National Tax Limitation Committee, will endorse Republican and Conservative congressional candidate James Tedisco in a radio commercial that begins airing in the 20th Congressional District on Thursday.
Uhler, in a telephone interview, said the organization is impressed with Tedisco's overall background, and is concerned about Democratic, Independence and Working Families candidate Scott Murphy’s support for the federal stimulus package.
"We're trying to advance the cause of fiscal responsibility and not expand the size of the government," he said.
Uhler said he has never met Tedisco, the state Assembly minority leader from Glenville running in the March 31 special election for the 20th Congressional District seat vacated when Kirsten Gillibrand, D-Greenport, was appointed to the U.S. Senate.
The California-based organization, formed in 1975, has members in all 50 states.
The commercial is among a package of radio and television commercials being aired, beginning on Thursday, by the Our Country Deserves Better Committee, a national conservative political action committee.
The organization will spend "in the ball park of $175,000 - $225,000," said Kelly Eustis, the group’s spokesman.
Commercials will air in the Albany and New York City markets.
New York City stations, although outside the district, reach Dutchess County and "will get the ads into a broader market," Eustis said.
One of the television commercials will link Murphy with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Another television commercial will focus on an editorial critical of ROTC outposts on college campuses that Murphy co-authored in a Harvard University student publication in 1989.
The commercial will include video footage of Murphy refusing to comment about ROTC at a recent event, according to the group.
Murphy has said his views about the military have changed over 20 years and that military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan "are doing an amazing job serving our country."
The Libertarian candidate in the March 31 special election is Eric Sundwall, an information technology consultant from Kinderhook, in Columbia County.
